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Barack Obama delivers Powerful Speech at Obama Center Opening

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on former President Barack Obama torching Donald Trump during his speech at the opening of his Presidential Library. Olipop: Buy any 2 cans of Olipop in store...

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And what I think may have been one of Obama's best speeches. Yet he gave a speech at the opening of his presidential library. He began by talking about how this nation

on our 250th birthday should always remember.

No kings. Let's play this clip right here.

A declaration that we are all created equal.

Endowed by our creator was certain unalienable rights. And that in the newly independent United States, there will be no kings or lords, no surfs or subjects, but only citizens. Each of us free to pursue our own version of happiness.

And able to determine our collective fate during elected representative government. It had not been done. Powerful words indeed, former President Obama then talked about how, with everything going on in the world,

I'm not immune to anger or doubt,

but I do know this a powerful message

that we should all be listening to. Let's play this clip. I get it. I am not immune to anger or doubt. But I do know this.

When we lose faith in each other, when we stop believing that voting matters, that citizenship matters, that are collective voices matter, that how we treat each other no longer matters.

And we give a way our power to decide our own futures. We open the door to the most ruthless or the most careless or the most fearful among us. Who sees some groups and some people as more equal than others?

And see government is nothing more than a way to divvy up the sports and punish enemies and keep those who are different in their place. I do not believe that is the story of America that prevails in the end.

I don't believe it because for us to give up, for us to give it now, after all this country's been through, to cynicism and division, would be a betrayal of our founding ideas.

A betrayal of our faith. And I remain convinced that the overwhelming majority of Americans feel the same way. That is unsettled as we are. People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division.

They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect that deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away. Former President Obama also talks about how,

when American foreign policy lives up to our highest ideals, lives up to our values, when we champion human rights and democracy,

we can take the lead in very important ways.

And obviously, he's building a major contrast here between himself and Donald Trump. Let's play it. Yes, America has made it share a foreign policy mistakes.

Our actions have not always matched our rhetoric.

We've learned that we can solve every conflict

Or solve or stop every atrocity around the globe,

but at our best,

the United States has been an undeniable force for good in the world.

And what I heard on every continent as president

is that when American foreign policy lives up to our highest ideals, when we champion human rights and democracy and the sound stewardship of our planet, when we take the lead in eradicating disease

and feeding the hungry and educating children, when we encourage cooperation between nations. Instead of trying to dominate and bully and squeeze every advantage, just because we can. And most of all, when we show through our example here at home,

that even a country is big and diverse as ours can make democracy work, it turns out all nations, including ours become more prosperous and secure. And the world gets a little bit brighter. And then he goes in to talk about forming a more perfect union

how our founders in the declaration of independence

and in the constitution made some major errors,

some catastrophic ones, however, they left a framework for future generations to perfect the union here, play this clip. - To pursue our own version of happiness and able to determine our collective fate,

through an elected representative government, it had not been done. And because it hadn't been done before,

the success of this experiment was never a given.

In forming our union, the founders felt terribly short of the declarations promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to a white man who owned property, but in drafting a constitution and a bill of rights,

they did have the foresight, the genius, to provide us with a framework that allows each generation to make our union more perfect. And over more than two centuries,

through petitions and protests, marches and strikes,

moral appeals from the pulpit and conversations at the family identity. Men and women from all walks of life, every color, every faith, every region,

took up the cause of democracy

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Then Obama showing his trademark humility in contrast to Donald Trump. Obama talks about how, when he was an office, they didn't accomplish everything. In fact, he made mistakes.

He made errors, and at the presidential library, the exhibits reflect unfinished work. It's candid and honest about mistakes that were made. Let's play this clip. (applause)

Now, of course, we did not accomplish everything

we set out to do. No administration does.

Some of the exhibits reflect unfinished business.

In some cases, my own shortcomings and mistakes. In some cases, because, as a sign I kept on the resolute desk red, hard things are hard. And that's especially true in a big, raucous, diverse, argumentative democracy

like the United States of America. Everybody's got an opinion. And that means getting stuff done involves reconciling

the demands of a couple of hundred million people.

Democracy can be frustrating. It can be slow, it can be inefficient. And yet more than anything, I hope this center will serve as an affirmation of just how special, a precious, or democracy truly is.

And remind us what we can achieve

when we embrace our shared responsibilities as citizens.

(applause) And then, former President Obama talks about how the exhibits here are focused, not just on policies, but our shared values.

Let's play it right here.

- It was Bible, in a pamphlet by Ida B. Wells, suffragettes buttons, and a heart hat, born by FDRs, labor secretary, Francis Perkins. And it's why the exhibits here focus not just on policies, but on the shared values

that make democracy possible. A belief in the intrinsic dignity and worth of all people, and the no one is above the law, or beneath its protection. A belief in checks and balances in our government and an accountability that comes with an independent judiciary

and a robust free press.

A belief that our military and law enforcement

owe allegiance not to any president or political party but to the people and our constitution. A belief in the peaceful transfer of power after the people have spoken in fair and free elections, recognizing that in a large, complicated society

like ours, no group or faction gets its way 100% of the time. And a belief that qualities of character, honesty, integrity, kindness, compassion, a sense of duty, and honor. Those things matter in our public dealings, just as they do in our private lives.

These are not,

these are the values and traditions I believe in.

And they are not Republican or Democratic values. They're American values we can all share, regardless of party values every president here today. As different as we are, has tried our best to uphold. Now use the John McCain and meet Romney believed in,

no less than I did. It is our greatest inheritance. And Obama talks about a declaration that we are all created equal, as I showed you at the outset of this video.

Let's play it. - And remind us what we can achieve when we embrace our shared responsibilities as citizens. (audience applauding) - And since we're a few weeks away from America's 250th birthday,

it is worth remembering. Just how radical the whole idea of self-government really was back in 1776. To that point, human history was a tale of conquest and cast and rigid hierarchies.

A world where the strong dominated the week were power and wealth and status flowed through lineage. And the many were ruled by the few. But out of the fire and steel of a revolution, a different story took flight on this continent,

A declaration that we are all created equal.

Endowed by our creator was certain unalienable rights

and that in the newly independent United States,

there will be no kings or lords, no surfs or subjects, but only citizens. Each of us free to pursue our own version of happiness and able to determine our collective fate through an elected representative government.

It had not been done. And because it hadn't been done before,

the success of this experiment was never a given.

Informing our union, the founders powerful words indeed.

And here's what he said about the speech

that was just delivered by former First Lady Michelle Obama that I also put on this feed on the Midas Touch Network. And this is just, you know, just the humanity, just being just being real with us. I miss this.

I miss this. Let's play this clip. (upbeat music) To Michelle, she did me wrong. She wanted to let me see her speech.

She knew she was going to mess me up and she did it anyway.

But she's always made me better.

And I could not be more grateful and to Sasha and Maria, what can I say? You mean everything to me? There you have it folks.

Let me know what you thought about that speech

by former President Barack Obama, powerful, powerful stuff.

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